Prince follow-up

Prince's anti-gay-marriage comment has drawn a great deal of criticism--as well as a claim from an anonymous spokesperson that Prince was "misquoted"--but there has been no official repudiation from His Purpleness.

Until it's important enough for Prince to make a public clarification, I'm going to assume that Claire Hoffman and The New Yorker had it right. Another unnamed spokesperson--this time from The New Yorker--spoke to Wired to report that the magazine "stands by its story." In this "Behind the Scenes" piece, Hoffman provides a little more detail about the exchange:

In your interview, Prince said the following about gay marriage: "God came to earth and saw people sticking it wherever and doing it whatever, and he just cleared it all out. He was like, 'Enough.'" Did you two have a more In-depth conversation about this?

I was a little surprised when he said it, because he has always seemed so unrestricted sexually.

We were having a larger conversation about his belief system and his politics. He told me he didn't have a horse in the November election and that he didn't believe in getting involved with these kind of earthly contests. I had asked him if the fact that Obama was black didn't compel him to get involved.